NY chicken lover!!!!

[rancher hicks]

I'm expecting some BR eggs from Fred's Hens (who's stock is from KathyinMO) to hatch this weekend. If you're interested in a cockerel later this summer, let me know.

I intend to set eggs this week or next to see if any are fertile. I think there may be, but can't be sure. I honestly think hens can tell and if any go broody in the coop it will be a surprise. However I absolutely would like another rooster in the coop. Mine is nice but I don't really need more hens. If I can get another roo that would be good. Do you have any pics?

It would save me ordering eggs and having to find takers for the extras. PM and let me know what kind of deal we're looking at.

 

[rancher hicks]

Yesterday was beautiful. Spent the whole day outside turning over my gardens and adding composted manure. I replanted my strawberries and put out my garden ornaments. I wanted to plant my greens and radishes but I ran out of time and energy. My hatch of the second batch of eggs from when the power went out are hatching now. They were a little delayed but otherwise seem fine.

Nooknook--Your chick looks like our cuckoo marans when they hatch.

I tried not to do any work as it was Sunday, but couldn't help myself in spite of shoulder hurting. So I planted some lettuce.

I just dug up some more area for the raspberry plants and put the BR's to work again scratching. I think if you want chickens to scratch for food you've gotta pull up or reduce the feed and make them hungry.

I'm putting them in different places around the yard so if one doesn't do well the other might. I can't figure out where to put the Black Currant and Jostaberry bushes though.

Even with the rain it is still nice enough to work out doors.

I do think I may need to go and shovel manure as I won't have as much as I'd like.

 

[Cass]

LOL, as others have said, this is unlikely to work. I'd LOVE to sell off a few of my broodies, but I doubt they'd still be broody in their new homes.

Send them home sitting on eggs?

The two you sold me are good broodies, but on their own time schedule, not mine. And yes, I did mean two. Last year it was the one you said was always broody, this year it's the other one. LOL

 

[featherz]

Send them home sitting on eggs?

The two you sold me are good broodies, but on their own time schedule, not mine. And yes, I did mean two. Last year it was the one you said was always broody, this year it's the other one. LOL

Hahahahaha.. Well, the splash one was broody 24x7 that one year before she went to you. The darker one never went broody. I guess it's her turn now.

 

[Cass]

I know, I was trying to be funny that's why I added the winky face at the end

if only it were that easy...

Buy a couple of featherz broodies and just wait a bit. They will go broody again AND she was really nice birds. Well mannered even. I have 2 she sold me because one of them was always broody and it was making her nuts and her sister came along for the ride. Her birds are the ONLY broodies I can pick up and not get bit. There are only 2 people I will add adult birds from their flock to mine. Featherz is one of them. Everyone else I get day olds or hatch their eggs. (yes, I did quarantinine them for only for 2 weeks. They were fine, just like you knew they were featherz. And it turns out my trust was not misplaced, they are still wonderful birds and my entire flock is still healthy)

 

[Lynzi777]

I can't remember when if I updated about my lav orp who I thought was broody, my head has been in a fog since yesterday morning with allergies. Turns out she just wanted to take about 5 hours to lay an egg. She finally came out of the coop and stayed out!

More eggs for us! I think I'm going to have to start adding some to my neighbors egg stand across the street. How long do you guys let your eggs stay in the fridge before they go bad? I started dating my cartons so I know to always pull from the oldest date.

Also, I have to say, I'm loving all these birds I have in my yard as of late. Between the crows, the blue jays, cardinals, they all must have nests around my property because the minute they see a hawk they go wild! I went out earlier and hear all this racket coming from what I believe was a blue jay (was hard to see thru the woods) and then a minute later a hawk flew up and out of the trees. My birds have been cooped up since noon after doing some cleaning so I'm glad they were in.

 

[Lynzi777]

Hahahahaha.. Well, the splash one was broody 24x7 that one year before she went to you. The darker one never went broody. I guess it's her turn now.

OMG how cute is this?!?!?

 

[featherz]

Buy a couple of featherz broodies and just wait a bit. They will go broody again AND she was really nice birds. Well mannered even. I have 2 she sold me because one of them was always broody and it was making her nuts and her sister came along for the ride. Her birds are the ONLY broodies I can pick up and not get bit. There are only 2 people I will add adult birds from their flock to mine. Featherz is one of them. Everyone else I get day olds or hatch their eggs. (yes, I did quarantinine them for only for 2 weeks. They were fine, just like you knew they were featherz. And it turns out my trust was not misplaced, they are still wonderful birds and my entire flock is still healthy)

Aww thanks cass!! I think those birds are so nice (at least the one pictured above) because the durn girl was broody so often and I was always digging under her for eggs. I do have a couple of mean birds right now - I have a Java who is getting plucked clean by a crazy leghorn - tried to put a saddle on her and she screamed loud enough to scare neighbors for miles. If I could figure out which crazy leghorn it is (it's one of the browns, I am almost sure), I'd rehome someone quick!!

My broodies right now (all five of them) puff up and screech but no biting when I go for the eggs. Haven't given any of them eggs yet, I keep hoping they give up. =(

 

[Cass]

Cass - what kind of chicken is Mean Marge. I am a Margie, so I resent that resemblance, haha!



TOB

She's an Olive Egger. The ONLY one I have, and that is the ONLY reason she still lives. I am pretty sure she would make a tasty Sunday Dinner. If I ever get a hen that lays teal eggs she WILL BE dinner. With as many chickens as I have (far more than the coop houses comfortably) I don't have to put up with meanies. (nor does the rest of the flock, for that matter)

 

[Cass]

Done replying now MY news. ONE egg hatched in the coop. I didn't check for pips cuz the momma is the hen that has been harassed by the other broodies in the coop. Now she is safe and out of reach of any birds. So I didn't want to keep her held up long enough to check, I just grabbed the cracked shell and put her down with her chick. Well, any birds but the Sumantra that somehow found it's way in/under/through the chicken wire and laid it's egg on a NAIL in the floor, thereby breaking it. Then she left, so I don't know who laid it.

I wanted the egg so I know which egg hatched...give me an idea of what is fertile, in case I feel the need to add to my chick count in the near future. (In other words, in case I go insane soon

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Grade school eggs should start hatching tomorrow. I think they want me to pick them up on Friday, before the weekend. I hope so, I want to put some of them under my other 3 broodies before they break their broodieness.